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Just Your Average Saturday Morning

8:22am sperm collection

8:50am drop sperm specimen at Kaiser to be washed and prepped

9:00am hot chocolate, coffee, omelets, sausage, and parfait at Cafe Rigolo in Laurel Village

9:55am Kaiser waiting room

10:15am Called in

10:25am Intrauterine insemination and discussion with doctor

10:45am Doctor gets ready to leave, then turns around, “No alcohol.”

“Uhhhh, no alcohol for how long?”

“Until we find out whether or not you’re pregnant.”

SHOCK

12:35pm Ridge Winery

Me: “I didn’t know I couldn’t have alcohol. I would have delayed the insemination to tomorrow if I knew that! I spent an hour last night reading stuff online and nowhere did it say I could not have alcohol. That wasn’t in any of my reading materials either.”

Keith: “You know who should have told you you couldn’t have alcohol? Common sense.”

Tony: “My mom smoked cigarettes with all of us kids and we turned out FINE.”

Marc: “Everyone I know drinks heavily until they find out late in the game that they’re with child.”

Dean: “Do you want to taste, then spit out?”

Me: “I hate all of you guys.”

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